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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

  Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. Last week, Forbes contributor, Dave Chase, author of Healthcare Economics, wrote a piece called ’The 7 Organizations that will turn healthcare...

Having coverage doesn’t mean you have access to care

  Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. What does it mean when a patient from Canada flies to Oklahoma City and has surgery here in our facility? What does that mean? That means that they...

Single payer; single provider

  TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. I had the privilege to travel to England to see a relative who is living over there. While I was there, I made a point of visiting a...

Responding To 2 Criticisms

TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. We receive a lot of criticism from hospital apologists on social media. And 2 of the most common are that we are not open 24/7, and the other...

Good guy vs. bad guy brokers

TRANSCRIPT: Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. What an incredible response we had to our video blog, “Don’t trust your broker.” I don’t think a lot of people actually watched the video blog...

From Lima to OKC

Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. This past week, we operated on a man from Lima, Peru who desired a cochlear implantation. He was a great candidate for this and he came to our facility...

Goodbye, Dr. Francis Davis

  Hello, Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. “He who takes the king’s shilling is the king’s man.” I learned this phrase from Jeff Deist, the president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute...

Don’t feed the trolls

  Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series.   I would like for everyone to think about a healthcare journey as a bridge. And there are guides to help each patient cross this bridge. The...

Coding Insanity

Hello. Dr. Keith Smith with you – Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Thank you for joining us in this video blog series. As ICD-10 looms near in the next few days, I have some thoughts about the coding insanity in this country and what it has led to. In the late 1980s and...

Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons and Anesthesiologists | Surgery Center of Oklahoma

Oklahoma’s Top Surgeons & Anesthesiologists

Specialists and surgeons from all of Oklahoma’s top healthcare systems choose to operate here.

  • Anesthesiology
  • Ear, Nose and Throat (Otolaryngology)
  • Foot and Ankle
  • General Surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Gynecology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery
  • Orthopedics
  • Reconstructive Plastics
  • Urology